2023.R06 (April 23, 2023)

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Release date: April 23, 2023

New features

Functional area

Feature

Hybrid Work

Financial fields

Financial fields are now working.

Field values can be set manually in the grid

You can now set the values fields manually in the grid. To improve usability and achieve consistency, a Set option is added to all field types to allow users to easily set a field value manually.

Card view – Sort by custom field

Project managers can now sort by custom fields in the card view for their boards.

Controlled Availability Features to be GA Next Release

NOTE

These features in this section will be released as GA (General Availability) in the next release.

Functional area	Feature
Reports	Formula Column sources no longer required in Crosstab Tables Fields that are used to create formula columns in reports no longer have to be included in the report table, which makes it easier to create reports, prevents errors, and can reduce unnecessary clutter. Example report before new feature Example report after new feature
Resource Management	Job Title Placeholder Resources – Administration and Terminology Change New – Job Titles can be added as members of User Groups for managing their cost and billing rates. Change – Job Title placeholders, previously referred to as a Job Title in Group (or JTIG), will be known as Group Job Titles when the Administration capability is generally released.
Financial	Group Job Title Cost and Billing Rate Usage and Inheritance Changes New – The ability to include Group Job Title cost and billing rates on Rate Cards. New – The ability for User Resources to inherit Group Job Title cost and billing rates.

Controlled Availability Features to be Released Soon

NOTE

These features will be released soon. Customers with sandbox environments who would like to enable these new features should contact their Customer Success Manager.

Functional area	Feature
Resource Management	Retain Resource Capacity when Filtering Reports Treatment of Resources when Capacity Time Phased Data is included as related data in a report: There are three main changes: Filters using Labor or Staff Time Phased Data fields no longer filter out resources shown in the Report. Only the Labor or Staff Time Phased Data included in the report are affected. Resource Capacity in time periods where resources are not assigned to work items are no longer be excluded from the report. Advanced logic filters only support definitions for fields from Labor or Staff Time Phased Data. Filters on User, Group or Capacity fields are applied to the Advanced logic filter using the "and" operator. Any attempt to use the fields in the Advanced logic is prevented. Aggregation Of Capacity Data Fields in Reports We are introducing new behavior when Capacity Time Phased Data fields are aggregated using Grouping in report tables. Previously, capacity field aggregation was limited to grouping by certain fields (for example, User Item ID, User Group Item ID, etc.). It is now possible to aggregate any Capacity Time Phased Data column when grouping by any field that is related to Capacity Time Phased Data.
Financial	Close Fiscal Month We are introducing a new capability to lock monthly project data so that changes to data in timesheets, non-labor resources, resource assignments, and cost and billing rates are prevented. The ability to lock project data means that previously stated costs and revenues remain unchanged and more accurate forecasts can be produced.
Data Warehouse Export	Export files into the root directory We are introducing a new option to export all files into a single folder in the root directory without creating subfolders. The new functionality supports additional databases: BOX S3 SFTP Google Cloud Storage Azure Blob Storage NOTE Export to Amazon Redshift storage will not support this option

Notice – Change to DWH Export entities selection and exported data

To prevent duplicate data from being exported, which increases the export file size, export time, and post export processing, a new set of rules and guidelines for allowing entities to be selected in the DWH UI will be introduced. These guidelines will restrict which entities can be marked and selected for export. In general, entities can be selected for either the parent entity or the specific sub-entities, but not both. Further details about the entities that are affected will be published shortly.

This change is effective October 1, 2023. Customers will be required to make changes to their DWH UI entities selection and any post export processing before then.

IMPORTANT

After the change, accounts that have not implemented new guidelines with have the following behavior:

On first access to the DHW configuration UI, a message will prompt the administrator to update the entities selection according to the new guidelines and make the necessary changes to filtering criteria and fields selection.
In cases where no changes according to the new guidelines are implemented, the exports where duplicate parent/child entities selection exist will only contain the lower level entity (sub entity) records data.

Feature Deprecation Notice – Online Chat deprecation

As of this release (2023.R06), the online chat will no longer be available and the buttons associated with it will be removed from the user interface (see image).

With Microsoft Teams and Slack being the de facto standard tools for online teams communications, the decision has been taken to invest in product integrations with these tools and sunset the legacy component which isn’t being used.